The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.
Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.
I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.
Only those who row the boat make waves
Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.
Life is too short to dance with ugly men
. . . the haunted always take refuge in stillness.
It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.
I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with. " And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.
It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.